Chamber Music & Recitals

The Australian Chamber Orchestra's much-anticipated fi rst album dedicated solely to Mozart. Hybrid SACD in superb sound. Sinfonia concertante for violin viola and orchestra in E Flat K364.

The audience who first heard the E minor symphony in Meiningen on October 25, 1885 was enthusiastic. It was to be another great success for the composer, who, since Wagner's death in 1883, has been considered unchallenged - if not uncontested - as the...

The atmosphere of music that surrounded the Hapsburg court of the 17th century headed by musical monarch Leopold I fostered great creativity most particularly around the organ. This selection of works by court organists Froberger Keril and Poglietti - as...

The angel as a symbol of the tango-dance, death, and resurrection. Without losing the romance, the violence, eroticism and devotion of the traditional tango that he saw as empty and hollowed out, Piazzolla renewed and modified it with elements of...

The Akademie f?r Alte Musik Berlin continue their Handel trilogy with this recording of the last six concerti grossi of the composer's Op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel's concerti grossi soon...

The Akademie f?r Alte Musik Berlin complete their Handel trilogy with this recording of the Op. 3 concerti grossi. Even if this selection of concertos was most likely compiled by Handel's publisher rather than by the composer himself, the overall quality...

The air shimmers and glows, and somewhere in the mists, a solitary horn gives a lonely call. The stuff of fairytales? The truth is, it's impossible to write about Bruckner's majestic Fourth Symphony without letting the imagination soar; he never wrote...

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields - one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world - is renowned for it's polished and refined sound, rooted in outstanding musicianship. Today, the Academy performs some 100 concerts around the world each year,...

The 32 Piano Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven are often referred to as the 'New Testament' of the keyboard literature, following on the 'Old Testament' of J.S. Bach's 48 preludes and fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier. Brautigam's recordings, part of a...

The 20th anniversary of the Bruckner Festival in St. Florian in 2017 was celebrated with the Fifth Symphony, B major WAB 105 by Anton Bruckner. Interpreted by the Altomonte Orchestra with maestro Remy Ballot - the brilliant combination which since 2011...

The 1980 Deutsche Grammophon debut of violinist Shlomo Mintz re-issued on Pentatone's Remastered Classics series, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. Mintz then still in the fresh bloom of both critical and popular acclaim...

That's what happens when you let yourself be guided by prejudices: Emilie Mayer's contemporaries in the mid-19th century were unaware of the outstanding quality of her compositions because they only saw the woman instead of the composer. You might think...